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The Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing 2019 Shortlisthttps://breadandrosesprize.wordpress.com/2019/05/16/the-bread-and-roses-award-for-radical-publishing-2019-shortlist/
https://breadandrosesprize.wordpress.com/2019/05/16/the-bread-and-roses-award-for-radical-publishing-2019-shortlist/#respondThu, 16 May 2019 07:36:19 +0000http://breadandrosesprize.wordpress.com/?p=490The Alliance of Radical Booksellers is delighted to announce the shortlist for the Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing 2019. Now in its eighth year, the Bread & Roses Award seeks to celebrate excellence in the field of radical political non-fiction.

In a change to previous years, the 2019 award is being facilitated, adjudicated and funded solely by Alliance of Radical Booksellers members. The £500 prize will be awarded to the winner at a special event to be held at the Bread & Roses Theatre, King’s Cross, on Tuesday 11th June, 2019.

Please do also visit the website of our sister book prize, The Little Rebel’s Children’s Book Award, to view the recently announced shortlist of the best books published in the UK for readers aged 0-12.

Clicking on the publisher link alongside each title will take you to a relevant page with more information about each title.

‘Can We All Be Feminists?: Seventeen writers on intersectionality, identity and finding the right way forward for feminism’ edited by June Eric-Udorie (Virago)

‘Europe’s Fault Lines: Racism and the Rise of the Right’ by Liz Fekete (Verso)

‘Lights In The Distance: Exile and Refuge at the Borders of Europe’ by Daniel Trilling (Picador)

‘Alt Right: From 4chan to the White House’ by Mike Wendling (Pluto Press)

]]>https://breadandrosesprize.wordpress.com/2019/05/16/the-bread-and-roses-award-for-radical-publishing-2019-shortlist/feed/0housmansThe Bread and Roses Submission List 2019https://breadandrosesprize.wordpress.com/2019/04/27/the-bread-and-roses-submission-list-2019/
https://breadandrosesprize.wordpress.com/2019/04/27/the-bread-and-roses-submission-list-2019/#respondSat, 27 Apr 2019 16:17:57 +0000http://breadandrosesprize.wordpress.com/?p=487We are very happy to announce here the books submitted for the 2019 award. To qualify, all titles must fit the award’s political requirements, and have been published in 2018 by an author who is primarily resident in the UK.

The Shortlist will be announced very soon, and the award ceremony will be taking place at the Bread & Roses Theatre space, King’s Cross, on Tuesday 11th June 2019. More information on that to come.

Our thanks to all publishers and authors who have submitted titles.
The Submission List is presented here in alphabetical order, by book title.

A New Jerusalem

Benjamin Dickinson

9781780264424

New Internationalist

A Party With Socialists In It: A History of the Labour Left

Simon Hannah

9780745337470

Pluto Press

A Radical History of the World

Neil Faulkner

9780745338040

Pluto Press

A Woman Lived Here: Alternative Blue Plaques

Allison Vale

9781472140074

Little Brown

A Writer Of Our Time: The Life and Work of John Berger

Joshua Sperling

9781786637420

Verso

Against Creativity

Oli Mould

9781786636492

Verso

Alt. Right

Mike Wendling

9780745337456

Pluto Press

Bad Girls

Caitlin Davies

9781473647749

John Murray

Bullshit Jobs

David Graeber

9780241263884

Allen Lane

Burning Country

Robin Yassin-Kassab & Leila Al-Shami

9780745337821

Pluto Press

Burning Up

Simon Pirani

9780745335612

Pluto Press

Can We All Be Feminists?

June Eric-Udorie (Ed.)

9780349009872

Virago

Class Matters

Charles Umney

9780745337081

Pluto Press

Cracks In The Wall: Beyond Apartheid in Palestine / Israel

Ben White

9780745337616

Pluto Press

Decolonising University

Gurminder K. Bhambra, Dalia Gebrial, Kerem Nişancıoğlu (Eds)

9780745338200

Pluto Press

England’s Discontents: Political Cultures and National Identities

Mike Wayne

9780745399331

Pluto Press

Escaping Wars and Waves: Encounters With Syrian Refugees

Olivier Kugler

9781912408122

Myriad

Europe’s Fault Lines

Liz Fekete

9781784787226

Verso

Fallout: A Journey Through The Nuclear Age

Fred Pearce

9781846276255

Portabello

For A Left Populism

Chantal Mouffe

9781786637550

Verso

Four Feet Under

Tamsen Courtney

9781783525720

Unbound

Future Politics: Living Together in a World Transformed By Tech

Jamie Suskind

9780198825616

Oxford U.P.

Game Changer: Eight Weeks That Transformed Politics

Steve Howell

9781786155863

Accent Press

Guilty Feminist, The

Deborah Frances-White

9780349010144

Virago

Hara Hotel

Teresa Thornhill

9781786635198

Verso

How The World Thinks: A Global History Of Philosophy

Julian Baggini

9781783782284

Granta

Inner Level, The

Richard Wilkinson & Kate Pickett

9781846147418

Allen Lane

John Maclean: Hero Of Red Clydeside

Henry Bell

9780745338385

Pluto Press

K-Punk

Mark Fisher

9781912248285

Repeater

Kill All The Gentlemen

Martin Empson

9781910885697

Bookmarks

Lee Lozano: Not Working

Jo Applin

9780300223279

Yale U.P.

Life Lessons: The Case for a National Education Service

Melissa Benn

9781788732208

Verso

Lights In The Distance

Daniel Trilling

9781509815616

Picador

Marx and Marxism

Gregory Claeys

9780141983486

Pelican

National Populism: The Revolt Against Democracy

Roger Eatwell & Matthew Goodwin

9780241312001

Pelican

Natives

Akala

9781473661219

Two Roads

Never Again: Rock Against Racism

David Renton

9781138502710

Taylor & Francis

Night March

Alpa Shah

9781849049900

Hurst

Nine Pints: Through the Miysterious, Miraculous World Of Blood

Rose George

9781846276125

Portabello

Picture Book Professors

Melissa M. Terras

9781108438452

Cambridge Elements

Propaganda Blitz

David Edwards & David Cromwell (Eds)

9780745338118

Pluto Press

Radical Help

Hilary Cottham

9780349009070

Virago

Radical Sacrifice

Terry Eagleton

9780300233353

Yale U.P.

Revolting Prostitutes

Juno Mac & Molly Smith

9781786633606

Verso

Talking To North Korea

Glyn Ford

9780745337852

Pluto Press

The Ebb of the Pink Tide: The Decline of the Left in Latin America

Mike Gonzalez

9780745399966

Pluto Press

The Human Planet

Simon L. Lewis & Mark A. Maslin

9780241280881

Pelican

The Inking Woman

Nicola Streeten & Cath Tate

9780995590083

Myriad

The Memory We Could Be

Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik

9781780264400

New Internationalist

To Provide All People

Owen Sheers

9780571348077

Faber

Trans Britain

Christine Burns (Ed.)

9781783524716

Unbound

Trans Europe Express

Owen Hatherley

9780141988320

Allen Lane

When Words Fail: A Life With Music, War and Peace

Ed Vulliamy

9781783783366

Granta

]]>https://breadandrosesprize.wordpress.com/2019/04/27/the-bread-and-roses-submission-list-2019/feed/0housmansJoint winners of the Bread & Roses Award 2018 announcedhttps://breadandrosesprize.wordpress.com/2018/06/03/joint-winners-of-the-bread-roses-award-2018-announced/
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‘Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race’ by Reni Eddo-Lodgejoint winners of the Bread & Roses Award for Radical Publishing 2018

In a first for the Bread & Roses Award, the guest judges have given this year’s prize to two books, ‘Familiar Stranger: A Life Between Two Islands’ by Stuart Hall (with Bill Schwarz) and ‘Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race’ by Reni Eddo-Lodge.

The award is given by the Alliance of Radical Booksellers (ARB) and was presented to Bill Schwarz by guest judge Joan Anim-Addo, at the London Radical Bookfair on Saturday 2nd June.

Bread & Roses Award Trustee, Nik Gorecki, on the sharing of the award.“The decision to share the award was predicated on the notion that these two exceptional books compliment one another so well, offering two different approaches and levels of insight into the inter-relational dynamics of racism.

Stuart Hall drew on a lifetime of experience and academic learning to offer a subtle yet complex perspective on empire, colonialism and identity. Reni Eddo-Lodge’s direct writing style captures the immediacy of political discourse in the social media age, and unflinchingly turns a spotlight on the too-often unacknowledged manifestations of racism across society. The two books together provide readers with a rich inter-generational and inter-sectional narrative of black British experience and analysis.”

Guest judge Katharine Quarmby on ‘Familiar Stranger’

“Familiar Stranger is an outstanding memoir which, with considerable subtlety, marries together memoir with politics, providing readers with a brilliant analysis of the many discontents of colonialism. This posthumous account, written with Bill Schwarz, gave a beautiful sense of point and counterpoint throughout the book.

The chapters on Hall’s childhood were particularly strong in delineating the many complexities of race and class as identity is created – and the sections on the Windrush generation and their descendants heartbreakingly poignant, in the light of what is happening now.There can be no better guide to the intricacies of navigating British identities after the fall of empire than this book.”

Guest judge Joan Anim-Addo on ‘Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race’

“Reni Eddo-Lodge’s Why I’m no Longer Talking to White People About Race is a wonderful and timely book that dares to speak honestly to the contemporary moment in Britain, one that is increasingly characterised by young people, black and white, wanting to understand as fully as they can the society in which they live. While that society is of course multi-racial, the quality of life for too many people continues to be affected by the reality of race, or more accurately, racialised thinking in its varied guises.

Reni Eddo-Lodge’s Why I’m no Longer Talking to White People About Race, in addressing – so unflinchingly – this concern with race, stands within a radical, though largely hidden tradition of black writing in Britain. Where, for example, Robert Wedderburn had travelled with his Axe Laid to the Root in the nineteenth century and Linton Kwesi Johnson, notably with his Inglan is a Bitch in the twentieth century, Reni Eddo-Lodge, a young, home-grown, Black British woman of the twenty-first century now stands. Why I’m no Longer Talking to White People About Race must rightly be recognised for its radical work.

Kudos, too, to its publisher and the nameless person who quietly in the background refused to consent to the usual gatekeepers and fought for this book to be published. This book is direct. It is clear. It makes no excuses about its political positioning – black, intersectional, feminist – and it brings us all that much closer to the very necessary dialogue that we really need to have about race and that we must no longer sidestep.”

]]>https://breadandrosesprize.wordpress.com/2018/06/03/joint-winners-of-the-bread-roses-award-2018-announced/feed/0housmansThe Bread and Roses Submission List 2018https://breadandrosesprize.wordpress.com/2018/04/17/the-bread-and-roses-submission-list-2018/
https://breadandrosesprize.wordpress.com/2018/04/17/the-bread-and-roses-submission-list-2018/#respondTue, 17 Apr 2018 12:26:03 +0000http://breadandrosesprize.wordpress.com/?p=447We are very happy to announce here the books submitted for the 2018 award, which this year features a record 63 entries. To qualify, all titles must fit the award’s political requirements, and have been published in 2017 by an author who is primarily resident in the UK.

The Shortlist will be announced on the 24th April 2018, and the award ceremony will be taking place at the London Radical Bookfair on Saturday 2nd June 2018. This year’s bookfair will be held at Goldsmiths University’s Great Hall.

Our thanks to all publishers and authors who have submitted titles.
The Submission List is presented here in alphabetical order, by publisher.

Nasty Women

Heather McDaid (Editor), Laura Jones (Editor)

404INK

Bitch Doctrine: Essays For Dissenting Adults

Laurie Penny

Bloomsbury

Dead Zone: Where the Wild Things Were

Philip Lymbery

Bloomsbury

How To Resist: Turn Protest To Power

Matthew Bolton

Bloomsbury

Why I’m No Longer Talking To White People About Race

Reni Eddo-Lodge

Bloomsbury Circus

Politics Of The Mind: Marxism And Mental Distress

Iain Ferguson

Bookmark

Reader’s Guide To Marx’s Capital, A

Joseph Choonara

Bookmark

Know Your Place

Nathan Connolly (Editor)

Dead Ink

Post-Truth

Matthew D’Ancona

Ebury Press

Confessions Of A Recovering Environmentalist

Paul Kingsnorth

Faber & Faber

Future Sex: A New Kind Of Free Love

Emily Witt

Faber & Faber

Secret Life: Three True Stories

Andrew O’Hagan

Faber & Faber

Collusion: How Russia Helped Trump Win The White House

Luke Harding

Faber & Faber / Guardian

Dismembered: How The Atack On The State Harms Us All

Polly Toynbee, David Walker

Faber & Faber / Guardian

Border: A Journey To The Edge Of Europe

Kapka Kassabova

Granta

Island: A Journey Around Our Archipelago

Patrick Barkham

Granta

A Revolution of Feeling: The Decade that Forged the Modern Mind

Rachel Hewitt

Granta

Secret Twenties: British Intelligence, The Russians and the Jazz Age

Timothy Phillips

Granta

Strange Labrinth

Will Ashton

Granta

To Be A Machine

Mark O’Connell

Granta

Attack of the 50 Ft. Women: How Gender Equality Can Save The World!

Catherine Mayer

HarperCollins HQ

Diversify: Six Degrees of Integration

June Sarpong

HarperCollins HQ

Struggle Or Starve

Sean Mitchell

Haymarket

Go Back to Where You Came From: The Backlash Against Immigration & the Fate of Western Democracy

The judges greatly appreciated this exploration of the deep roots of the Corbyn phenomenon. In The Candidate, Nunns shows that Corbyn’s victories weren’t the accidental consequence of other candidates’ failures, but were built on the work of an energised, thoughtful and committed movement of citizen-campaigners.

Cogent, optimistic, well-written and thoroughly researched, this hugely topical book records with great intimacy and insight an historical moment whose lessons mustn’t be forgotten, while also exposing the persistent forces which continue to work against social change.

Alex Nunn’s was awarded the prize and a cheque for £500 by guest judge Joan Anim-Addo at this year’s London Radical Bookfair, hosted as ever by the ARB. This year’s prize money has been generously granted by the General Federation of Trade Unions.

In September 2015 an earthquake shook the foundations of British politics. Jeremy Corbyn, a lifelong and uncompromising socialist, was elected to head the Labour Party. Corbyn didn’t just win the leadership contest, he trounced his opponents. The establishment was aghast. The official opposition now had as its leader a man with a plan, according to the conservative Daily Telegraph, “to turn Britain into Zimbabwe.”

How this remarkable twist of events came about is the subject of Alex Nunns’ highly readable and richly researched account. Drawing on first-hand interviews with those involved in the campaign, including its most senior figures, Nunns traces the origins of Corbyn’s victory in the dissatisfaction with Blairism stirred by the Iraq War and the 2008 financial crash, the move to the left of the trade unions, and changes in the electoral rules of the Labour Party that turned out to be surreally at odds with the intentions of those who introduced them. The system of one-member-one-vote, which delivered Corbyn’s success, was opposed by those on the left and was heralded by Tony Blair who described it as “a long overdue reform that… I should have done myself.”

Giving full justice to the dramatic swings and nail-biting tensions of an extraordinary summer in UK politics, Nunns’ telling of a story that has received widespread attention but little understanding is as illuminating as it is entertaining. He teases out a plotline of such improbability that it would be unusable in a work of fiction, providing the first convincing explanation of a remarkable phenomenon with enormous consequences for the left in Britain and beyond.

]]>https://breadandrosesprize.wordpress.com/2017/06/26/the-candidate-jeremy-corbyns-improbable-path-to-power-by-alex-nunns-wins-the-bread-roses-award-for-radical-publishing-2017/feed/0housmansThe Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing 2017 Shortlisthttps://breadandrosesprize.wordpress.com/2017/05/04/the-bread-and-roses-award-for-radical-publishing-2017-shortlist/
https://breadandrosesprize.wordpress.com/2017/05/04/the-bread-and-roses-award-for-radical-publishing-2017-shortlist/#respondThu, 04 May 2017 09:00:30 +0000http://breadandrosesprize.wordpress.com/?p=423The Alliance of Radical Booksellers is delighted to announce the shortlist for the Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing 2017. Now in its sixth year, the Bread & Roses Award seeks to celebrate excellence in the field of radical political non-fiction.

]]>https://breadandrosesprize.wordpress.com/2017/05/04/the-bread-and-roses-award-for-radical-publishing-2017-shortlist/feed/0housmansGFTU_LOGO_300Submissions now open for the Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing 2017https://breadandrosesprize.wordpress.com/2016/12/01/submissions-now-open-for-the-bread-and-roses-award-for-radical-publishing-2017/
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The Alliance of Radical Booksellers (ARB) is happy to announce that submissions are now being welcomed for the Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing 2017. The Bread and Roses Award celebrates non-fiction which is

David Graeber’s ‘Debt: The First 5,000 Years’ (Melville House, 2011)
Hsiao-Hung Pai’s ‘Scattered Sand: The Story of China’s Rural Migrants’ (Verso, 2012)
Joe Glenton’s ‘Soldier Box: Why I Won’t Return to the War on Terror’ (Verso, 2013)
‘Here We Stand: Women Changing The World’, edited by Helena Earnshaw and Angharad Penrhyn Jones (Honno Press, 2014)
‘The Song of the Shirt: The High Price of Cheap Garments, from Blackburn to Bangladesh’ by Jeremy Seabrook (Hurst, 2015)Guest judgesThis year’s guest judges are:

Vera Chok is a writer and actor who contributed a chapter to The Good Immigrant (Book of the Year 2016, BBC Book of the Week, #1 on Guardian Books and Amazon bestseller) and is also published by the Guardian, Rising, Yauatcha Life, and The Brautigan Free Press. As a maker, Vera writes and produces mischievous and subversive pieces that investigate the construction of meaning, connection, and performativity. Vera is particularly interested in race, sex and gender and uses comedy as a weapon.

Owen Hatherley is a writer and journalist based in London who writes primarily on architecture, politics and culture. His most recent books include A New Kind of Bleak (Verso, 2012), Landscapes of Communism (Allen Lane, 2015), The Ministry of Nostalgia (Verso, 2016)

Professor Joan Anim-Addo has been the Director of the then Centre for Caribbean Studies at Goldmsiths, and is currently convenor for the undergraduate option: Caribbean Women’s Writing and also the Pathway ‘Literature of the Caribbean and its Diasporas’ within the MA Comparative Literary Studies programme.

Award ceremony and prize money

The prize will be awarded at the London Radical Bookfair, to be held on Saturday 24th June 2017 in the Great Hall at Goldsmiths University, London.

There is one prize of £500 to the winning title, generously funded by the General Federation of Trade Unions. The prize is run in conjunction with the ARB’s prize for progressive children’s writing, The Little Rebels Children’s Book Award.

The Alliance of Radical Booksellers (ARB) is delighted to announce the shortlist for the Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing 2016. Now in its fifth year, the Bread & Roses Awards seeks to celebrate excellence in the field of radical political non-fiction.

Previous winners include David Graeber’s ‘Debt: The First 5000 Years’ and Hsiao-Hung Pai’s ‘Scattered Sand: The Story of China’s Rural Migrants’.

Submissions now open fortheBread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing 2016

Guest judges: Natalie Bennett, Anna Minton and Nina Power

Award ceremony keynote event at the London Radical Bookfair on 7th May

The Alliance of Radical Booksellers (ARB) is happy to announce that submissions are now being welcomed for the Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing 2016. The Bread and Roses Award celebrates non-fiction which is

Natalie Bennett is the leader of the Green party. She edited Guardian Weekly between 2007 and March 2012. She’s a veteran blogger, with her home blog being Philobiblon, covering politics, history and books, and she was the founder of the Carnival of Feminists.

Nina Power is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Roehampton University. She is the author of ‘One-Dimensional Woman’ (Zero Books 2009), co-editor of Alain Badiou’s ‘On Beckett’ (Clinamen 2002), and the author of several articles on European Philosophy, atomism, pedagogy, art and politics.

Anna Minton is a writer and journalist and the author of ‘Ground Control: Fear and Happiness in the 21st Century City’, published by Penguin. She is a frequent contributor to The Guardian and The Financial Times and is a Reader in Architecture at the University of East London. More info about her work can be found at www.annaminton.com

Award ceremony and prize money

The prize will be awarded at the London Radical Bookfair, to be held on Saturday 7th May. This year’s London Radical Bookfair will be taking place in tandem with the Alternative Press Fair.

There is one prize of £500 to the winning title, generously funded by the The General Federation of Trade Unions. The prize is run in conjunction with the ARB’s prize for progressive children’s writing, The Little Rebels Children’s Book Award.

Crucially, submitted books must have been published in 2015 and books must be written, or largely written by authors or editors normally living in the UK.

]]>https://breadandrosesprize.wordpress.com/2015/11/03/submissions-welcome-for-the-2016-bread-roses-award/feed/0housmansJudgesGFTU_LOGO_300‘Here We Stand: Women Changing The World’ wins the Bread & Roses Award 2015https://breadandrosesprize.wordpress.com/2015/05/10/here-we-stand-women-changing-the-world-wins-the-bread-roses-award-2015/
https://breadandrosesprize.wordpress.com/2015/05/10/here-we-stand-women-changing-the-world-wins-the-bread-roses-award-2015/#respondSun, 10 May 2015 08:27:19 +0000http://breadandrosesprize.wordpress.com/?p=352The Alliance of Radical Booksellers is delighted to announce the winner of this year’s Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing as ‘Here We Stand: Women Changing The World’, published by Honno Press, and edited by Helena Earnshaw and Angharad Penrhyn Jones.

Through a series of interviews and articles, 17 key British women campaigners talk intimately about the difficult and exhilarating nature of their activism. They have organised, marched on the streets, joined protest camps, opened refuges, blogged from war zones, and smashed up military equipment. They have gone undercover, lived in trees, stormed Parliament, and taken on the world’s largest corporations. They have been sacked, attacked, psychologically abused, jailed, shot at, sued, deceived by police spies, and even disowned by their families. But still they keep dreaming; still they march on. And they are changing history.

Guest judge Nina Power said of the book “Anthologies can often be uneven affairs, but this collection was consistently moving, insightful and inspiring in equal measure. The editors deserve particular praise for having so brilliantly presented these essential accounts of women involved in so many areas of struggle.”

Co-guest judge Anna Minton added “From the first page to the last, these incredible stories of women’s political courage leap off the page. The blend of personal accounts mixed with outstanding journalism make for a truly inspiring collection.”

The award was presented by Anna, Nina and Natalie Bennett at the London Radical Bookfair. The editors were presented with a cheque for £500, with the award money funded by the General Federation of Trade Unions.